San Diego Archive

What’s the one skill a person needs for any job? Creativity. Of course, we need basic left-brain (logical) skills to perform in most positions – like the ability to budget and calculate, and to follow instructions. For some professions, the necessary skills are mostly black and white – like computer program­ming or accounting.

Most of us did not grow up planning to be a project manager. We may have wished to be a police officer, or a fire fighter, or even president of the United States, but not a project manager! It just was not something that came to the front of our thoughts as we got older, went to school, and planned for our careers.